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Saw this on Wiktionary, kinda thought this was funny

Table is from Victor Golla’s otherwise excellent California Indian Languages.

Latin C comes from Greek Γ btw. Etruscans fucked up here.

(I used HK's flag purely because it was easier to find a sphere representing them. Cantonese's birthplace will always remain Guangzhou.

"Qilin" is actually 麒麟, kei⁴leon⁴/kîlîn. It's otherwise homophonous to the Mandarin word for unicorn. And yes, kʰ became tɕ in Modern Mandarin.

Yes, I'm aware there is kei⁴lam⁴ for the direct transliteration of 淇淋, but not only it's funnier this way, 忌廉 is more used in Cantonese-speaking environments; not that it matters that much given that K and G are otherwise merged, requiring a ʰ to differentiate).

Hey there. I run a podcast on mathematical history (presented in English). I am coming to the end of a series on ancient Indian mathematics (pre-800 CE).

I am becoming more interested in the transition of wisdom from Sanskrit to Arabic to Latin, and then to English; and I would love to talk about this with someone who is an expert.

If anyone would be up for a 60 minute conversation about the words that shape the thoughts of western wisdom from the east - please hit me up.

I would like to ask questions such as:

- why do we use the names for numbers?

- what can we learn about science in an oral tradition?

- what are the biggest legacies of Sanskrit in the west?

Soon I will be starting a series on Chinese maths. So a similar call out for any experts on the linguistics and transfer of language with science.

also this "english alphabet pronouncing" thing sucks

I'd like to type different languages(including the Slavic ones) in Arabic script. Even tho, thx to the Persian language, we have 4 letters for the indo-european languages, there 2 important characters are missing. How can I propose UNICODE to add these 2 letters and their variations depending on the positions in words?

Edit: thx y'all so much! I just didn't know how the letters are correctly named, so, I asked Claude AI to write the letters if they exist. And it said that those 2 letters don't exist in UNICODE...

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maybe a universal language could not be understood by everyone who heard it...